Weekly Reports Recap: February 21 - February 25
Three reports from Sensor Tower - about top games in January and Call of Duty: Mobile.
This week:
Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games in January 2022
Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in January 2022
NPD: There were 228.7M Mobile Gamers in the US and Canada in 2021
Sensor Tower: Call of Duty: Mobile earned more than $1.5B
StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch had more than 2B hours watched in January 2022
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Sensor Tower: Top Grossing Mobile Games in January 2022
PUBG Mobile is the leader again. The project earned $237M, 64% of which came from China. The US is responsible for 8% of revenue, and Turkey - for 7%.
Honor of Kings from the very same Tencent reached second place with $233.2M of revenue. The majority (96%) of it came from China, an additional 2% - from Taiwan.
January was a good month for Genshin Impact, which revenues reached $208.7M. It’s 37% higher than a year before.
Overall, in January 2022, the mobile gaming market earned $7.4B, which is 7% lower than in January 2021. The US is responsible for $2.1B of this amount or 28%, Japan generated 19.3% of global revenues, and China was responsible for 17.8%. But should mention, that Sensor Tower is not tracking alternative stores.
Sensor Tower: Top Mobile Games by Downloads in January 2022
Garena Free Fire is on top with 24M of downloads. An increase to the previous year is 51.6%. Countries with the most impact are India (25.5% of overall downloads), and Brazil (11.7%).
Evergreen Subway Surfers is second with 23.7M of downloads (+58.6% YoY). 20.7% of overall downloads came from India, 7% - from the US.
In January 2022, games were downloaded 5.2B times. An increase to January 2021 is 2.8%. Top-3 countries by downloads are India (761.8M - 14.6% of overall downloads), the US (14.6%), and Brazil (8.2%).
NPD: There were 228.7M Mobile Gamers in the US and Canada in 2021
Despite the large number, the number of mobile gamers decreased by 4% compared to 2020.
NPD analytics are sure, that the global gaming market started to normalize after the pandemic.
Sensor Tower: Call of Duty: Mobile earned more than $1.5B
Getting to the milestone took the game a little bit more than 2 years.
In 2021 Call of Duty: Mobile revenue increased by 45%. It is connected with the release in China in December 2020.
The US is the main market for the game. American players spent $647M in Call of Duty: Mobile, which is about 43% of overall revenue. Japan is second, China is third.
Call of Duty: Mobile is #14 worldwide by revenue in all genres.
In the shooter category, the game is losing only to Garena Free Fire (#2) and PUBG Mobile (#1).
The mobile shooters genre is growing. In 2020 genre revenue was $5.7B, while in 2021 it went up to $6.3B.
StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Twitch had more than 2B hours watched in January 2022
Facebook Gaming reached its new record - 617M hours of content watched. The previous peak was in August 2021 - 567M.
League of Legends (179M), Grand Theft Auto V (149M), and Escape from Tarkov (91M) - are top titles of January by watched hours.